Write a 2500 word essay on the question:
To what extent, if at all, does the notion of a “special German path to
modernity” [Sonderweg] help explain how and why the Holocaust happened?
Make sure to use at least 15 references in Chicago or MHRA style.
Use the following readings as sources but you can also add outside sources if need be, but make sure to write a bibliography at the end as to which sources you have used.
Make sure this essay provides a lot of context and thinking at the time.
Here are the readings:
– Zimmerer, Jürgen, ‘Colonialism and the Holocaust. Towards an Architecture of Genocide’, in A. Dirk Moses (ed.), Genocide and Settler Society. Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004), pp. 49-76.
– Zimmerer, Jürgen, ‘War, Concentration Camps and Genocide in South-West Africa. The First German Genocide’, in Jürgen Zimmerer and Joachim Zeller (eds.), Genocide in German South-West Africa (Monmouth: The Merlin Press, 2003), pp. 41-63.
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Kühne, Thomas, ‘Colonialism and the Holocaust: Continuities, Causations and Complexities’, Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2013), 339-62.